As Deng She expected, early the next morning, Wang Zongzhe came for the second time.

Pan Cheng was reluctant to give food first, saying that he would wait for Deng She to go to the front line and then give it. Dunshe replied: "The generals are unwilling, and without food there is no morale." ”

Wang Zongzhe came again in the afternoon: "You can give grain and grass." First give 5,000 stones, and change the general to 10,000 to go to the front. ”

"It's okay for 10,000 people to go to the front, and at least 30,000 stone of food."

On the afternoon of the third day, Pan Cheng made a concession: "10,000 stones, for the general's 8,000 men and horses." ”

"It's better than this, I don't want the grain from Quang Ninh. Our army's baggage will arrive in a few days, and as soon as the food arrives, I will go to the front line, okay? ”

Deng She's army is dispatched, how can the grain and grass be delayed? Pan Cheng knew in his heart that Deng She was just using this to blackmail. He said that the weight will arrive in a few days, and a few days is a few days? After seven or eight days, he just made an excuse and still didn't move, how about him? The more Deng She said this, the more he felt that he had seen through Deng She's intentions, and it was easy to pinch the weakness of his good reputation, so that he could ride the tiger and fight quickly.

He made a decision: "Fourteen thousand stones, five thousand people." ”

After seeing a scout who returned to the camp, Deng She agreed, invited Wang Zongzhe, and said: "The military rations will begin to be handed over tomorrow morning, the old gentleman has worked hard for days, and the lieutenant general of our army admires your demeanor. ”

That night, except for Yang Wanhu, Zuo Che'er, Tong Shengyang, Lu Qianshi and other generals who had to stay in the camp to prepare for tomorrow's food, no soldiers in the camp gathered in Deng Sheshuai's tent. Deng She was very interested, and specially selected more than a dozen beautiful Goryeo military prostitutes who knew how to sing and dance to accompany the wine.

I saw the banquet in the hall, and the warbler and swallow in the hall.

In the handsome tent, the sounds of drinking orders, fist strokes, drinking persuasions, drinking trouble, singing, pipa, etc., are mixed together, resounding in the night sky. Even though Wang Zongzhe was restrained, he couldn't bear the flattery of the generals, and drank a table of wine until nearly two watches, and did not see the banquet disperse.

Deng She was crooked, toasted Wang Zongzhe, and said, "Why don't you take Wu Hook and collect Guanshan Fifty Prefectures?" It's a good night,......"

The sky outside the tent is like a cover, and the camp is full of red flags. A hook bends the moon, and counts the cold stars. He was drunk and hazy, looked around at the generals, laughed, and said: "The eternals are in front, and the eternals are behind." What is there in the midst of me? Born as a man, fighting on the battlefield, killing beards, and being happy. Today, when the night is good, full of heroes, how can the champion have no poetry? And chant come, chant come. ”

The generals were in a hurry and shouted: "Chant come, chant come." ”

The Four Books and Five Classics of Wang Zong's philosophy are restrained and boring, and there is no talent for poetry. He opened his mouth and stammered, so he used the help of wine to bump out a sentence, and said, "When is the bright moon?" Ask the sky for wine. Deng She's "ah, ah" twice, indistinct, said: "Familiar, familiar." ”

Before he could finish speaking, his glass fell to the ground and fell to the ground. As the crowd watched, he snored loudly. Bi Qianniu hurriedly ran up and helped him to rest elsewhere.

The Lord will be drunk, and everyone wants to leave, but Deng She is not the only one who is drunk, and he will not let him go, and the banquet continues. Outside the tent gradually became quiet, the camp was silent, in the dead of night, and the wine was drunk.

A quarter of an hour later.

The gate of the Chinese army opened quietly, and two or three hundred-man teams galloped out. They circled around the battalion, lined up, and felt outward. The knights, all dressed in black, took advantage of the night to find out twenty miles in one breath, and met several groups of sentinels on the road, whether they were from Quang Ninh or the Yuan army at the front, they were all captured.

When they were about to reach the edge of Guangning City, they turned back on their horses and divided into two horses, one back to the Chinese army, and the other to the forward battalion of Tong Shengyang. The others were in one place, and ran westward.

At the second watch, the handsome tent banquet dispersed, and the civil officials who went to the banquet were all drunk.

Two more and four quarters.

Wang Zongzhe, who was sleeping soundly in the tent, seemed to hear some movement. Drunk and unwilling to wake up, he rolled over and fell into a deep sleep.

Outside the camp gate.

"General Yu, there are 10,000 cavalry in our Chinese army, and 2,000 horsemen and firecrackers in the Shenji Battalion, the assembly has been completed, and we are waiting for the general's order."

Dunschelle Ma review, heroic posture, where is there still half a point of drunkenness? He asked, "What about the baggage camp?" ”

"Three thousand elites, waiting three miles ahead. They carried all kinds of siege equipment and were pulled by military horses and cattle gathered from various battalions. ”

"What about the Jurchen camp?"

"Five miles ahead, waiting for my department."

"Pass the order, call the Jurchen camp first, the Shenji camp and the baggage camp in the center, and my palace behind. Two thousand men were divided, divided into left and right sides, to guard the two wings. Rushed to Liaoxi overnight. ”

Determined to participate in the war, Deng She had no intention of fighting the Yuan army head-on. He wanted to use cavalry to raid Liaoxi, capture Wuping and Huihe, and crush the right flank of the Yuan army, so as to threaten the main force of the Yuan army led by Nang Jialu and others.

Then depending on the situation, it can be fought or defended, and it can be advanced or retreated. There are no fighters, and the city is firmly held; If there are fighters, they are inserted by surprise. Later, Li Ye resisted Zhang Jujing and Shi Jiabao in western Liaoning, Yang Wanhu on the right, and Che'er on the left responded to cover, and immediately changed the situation of the enemy and firmly grasped the initiative on the battlefield.

The art of war, a thousand words, is nothing more than to cause people but not to people. The key is to mobilize the enemy, not to be mobilized by the enemy.

In order not to let the enemy know his intentions, Dunshe used deception one after another. Falsely reporting the number of cavalry, moving forward on both flanks, bargaining with Pan Cheng, getting drunk in the middle of the night, putting on a posture on the front line of the decisive battle, making great movements, deliberately letting the enemy's meticulous work know, making his judgment wrong, thus ensuring the suddenness of the attack.

He not only deceived the Yuan army, not only Pan Cheng, but even the generals in his army, most of them only knew about it that night. The soldiers left the camp, but they did not know the purpose.

The plan was set, and he was suffering from not knowing the reality of Huihe and other places, so he bargained with Pan Cheng until the spies sent to Liaoxi came back, and then he set off,—— before the spies went, he gave the military order that he must return within five days.

His considerations were not inconsiderate, but there was one thing that surprised him. After all, the real battle situation changes three times a day.

Tens of thousands of people marched westward in the dark, with occasional rivers and streams, and it was already cold in winter, and it had long been frozen, so as not to hinder the passage of the army. Whenever there are mountains, go around them in advance. There were also two or three hundred men who went first, who cleared the roads with earth, rocks, and trees, and marked the ravines, so that the march of the army was very fast.

That night, they passed through Quang Ninh and Luyang.

At dawn, we arrived at the Daling River on the west side of Yiju and the east side of Luyang, and there was a mountain not far away, called Qingshan. Deng She gave the order to take advantage of the cover of the mountain to rest temporarily. This place is about one hundred and forty or fifty miles away from Wuping, and there are not many spare horses in Deng She's army.

The glacier is like a belt, and the fertile field is like a plain. Suddenly, scouts came galloping on horseback.

He galloped very fast, the horsewhip kept beating, without pity for the horsepower, galloped into the army, he didn't have time to jump, dragged the reins and let the mount spin, and shouted: "Report to the general, Yizhou has fallen, half of Pan Pingzhang's troops have been killed, and the rest have fled." ”

"Who broke it?" Deng She was taken aback.

"Xingzhou Zhang Jujing."

"Do you see the flags of Wuping, Hui and Tartar?"

"I haven't seen it."

The morning wind was cold, rolling up the stumps on the mountain and floating the soil, and sprinkled it down, falling on the bodies of everyone under the mountain. The morning sun, cold but not hot, reflected tens of thousands of people in shining armor and herds of war horses. Deng She unconsciously grasped the saber at his waist, and the handle of the knife was cold to the bone, and he didn't realize it.

"General, Yizhou has fallen, and our army's plan to fight Wuping and Huihe has failed." Lu Qianxi said worriedly.

Without Yizhou, even if Deng She defeated Wuping and Huihe, who were more than 100 miles away, he would become a lone army. Hanging alone, there are Zhang Jujing and Shijiabao separated by him, he can't get out, he retreats, there is nowhere to retreat. The situation of being invincible and losing will fall back on him in a blink of an eye.

Someone gritted his teeth and scolded, saying: "Pan Cheng's guy, it's too unbeaten!" It's only been a few days? Uiju was lost. ”

"Liu Pingzhang has guarded the city that he hasn't lost for a few months, and if he changes Pan Cheng, he can't hold it for five days!"

"Liu Pingzhang didn't stop guarding, he counterattacked several times, all won a big victory, and killed how many Tartars in Liaoxi! Pan Cheng's people can't even resist the defeat of the remnants of the army? Eater! It's a rice bucket! ”

Sha Liu Er had 30,000 people, and Pan Cheng sent only 10,000 people, but he didn't expect him to attack, why couldn't he even hold it for five days? Deng She had never been to Yizhou, but he also heard from the spies that Sha Liu Erzhen had built the city like an impregnable wall.

Deng She asked himself, let alone 10,000 people, as long as 5,000 people, even if Zhang Jujing poured his nest to attack, he would be able to defend for a month and two. The fall of Uiju is so incredible that no one thought of it.

"General, what should I do?"

If the military horses are out and return without success, the morale will inevitably plummet. But Yizhou fell, and Wuping and Huihe obviously couldn't fight.

"Or, let's go to Yizhou instead? Zhang Jujing is able to conquer the city, and our army will be taken by surprise and will win a big victory. ”

"There's a bird in Tauiju! If we can't achieve the goal of annihilating the right flank of the Tartars, we will also face the offensive of the Tartars of Liaoxi, and even, the Tartars of Wuping and Huihe will come to attack, will we really become Lao Pan's knife? ”

Listening to the discussion of the generals, Deng She leaned on his horse and looked into the distance.

The mountains near and far are reckless.

Near Lianma Ridge, far away Wulu Mountain. The forest of Pulla Ridge is deep, the situation is extremely precipitous, and the walker must get off the horse and climb to help, so it gets its name. Wulu Mountain is in the west of Guangning, Shun has sealed twelve mountains, it is the town mountain of Youzhou. Its mountain covers six layers, there is a stone gate at the foot of the mountain, and the two mountains stand like a door, and can also be seen dozens of miles away. There are streams in the middle, rocky ravines, and peaks and peaks.

Winter is cold and the mountains are vast. The top of the mountain is cold, the snow does not melt for more than a month, looking at it from afar, it is like floating in the clouds, and the cold is heavy in Guangning City.

The fall of Yizhou is equivalent to the rupture of the defense line in western Liaoning, and the military horses in western Liaoning can come out at any time. They can come and go freely, but they can stay still and threaten the Dunshe. The right flank and the main force can be united, and the three armies will besiege Quang Ninh City.

At that time, the initiative on the battlefield will not be in Dunshe's hands. If he helps Guangning, he is afraid of the left-wing Liaoxi. If he defends Liaoxi, and has the main force of the Yuan army on the Guangning front, he will inevitably throw a mouse bogey.

Called over to explore the horse, Deng She asked carefully.

He made a decision and gave a decisive order: "Send a messenger quickly to urge Li Yeying's action." Bury the pot to make rice, and two hours later, attack Yizhou. After deciding to make a decision, he no longer hesitated, he drew his saber, made preparations for the warm knife, and wrote down the lesson in his heart.

If the divine soldier really exists, it is the appearance of Deng She appearing under the city of Yiju.

Zhang Jujing didn't expect that in the valley thirty or forty miles away from him, there were 20,000 newly arrived cavalry. Yesterday, he brought the main force of Xingzhou and Daning to attack the city, and before the siege, there was a radius of fifty miles.

The soldiers who had pursued and routed the fleeing red turbans had not yet returned, and when they saw many of the invading cavalry horses hanging their heads, it was expected that the soldiers had already died. Some of the streets of the city still had stubborn resistance from the enemy who had not had time to withdraw, and there were occasional brief street fighting. The gates, which had burned down with great difficulty, were left open like a blackened smiling face, as if mocking his bad luck.

"What's this called?"

He was dumbfounded, watching Deng She's military horses show off their might, and solve the small Yuan army outside the city in three or two. "Whose banner is that?" He rubbed his eyes, incredulous, and asked the guard.

"Deng."

Zhang Jujing almost vomited blood, and it was Deng She again! He remembered that his name with the family treasure Liaodong Shuangbi was tarnished by Deng She's hands for the first time. At that time, Deng She used the strategy of He Guangxiu to break the enemy, and he was completely defeated, and he almost became a prisoner.

A young general with a spear and a prancing horse, galloped outside the city, took a bow and shot arrows, arrows like lightning, brushed Zhang Jujing's ears, and shot at the banner at the head of the city. He shouted loudly: "I am the governor of the twin cities, and now I have 100,000 people to save Yiju." Their military horses outside the city have been exhausted, you are tired, forgive me for not my opponent, God has the virtue of a good life, why not surrender quickly? Those who descend do not kill. ”

There are countless cavalry that cannot see the edge, all over the sky, galloping outside the city, dusty, and showing off their horsemanship.

Deng She opened the bow, and the three armies raised the army flag and covered the sun. Deng She raised his gun, and the three armies raised their guns and shouted in unison: "Break the bamboo, continue the bamboo, fly the soil, and chase the enemy!" "The shouting sounded to stop the clouds. The drums of war shook the sky, the trumpets shook the ground, the walls trembled, and the faint fell with trembling.

One person calls each other, ten thousand people correspond, and this city is like a boat in a dangerous wave. The gates of the city were opened, but Deng could not enter.

Ignoring the military horses chasing the red scarf and not returning, Zhang Jujing rushed down the city and hurriedly gathered the military horses in the city. Deng She is right, his soldiers are tired from fighting for a long time, if the city gate is not burned, there is still a chance to fortify the city and defend itself, now the city gate is wide open, Deng She is in an instant. Without a barrier, he had no choice but to escape.

Deng She was waiting at the east gate, and he went straight to the west gate. Not far from the west gate, suddenly a cannon sounded, and behind the hills, four or five thousand ambush soldiers came around, and the first general was Lu Qianxi.

The seizure of Yizhou was a last resort. As a last resort, it is necessary to completely annihilate and kill and injure the living forces of the Yuan army in western Liaoxi to the greatest extent. Deng She inquired about the details, and after knowing that the east gate of Yizhou was damaged, he decided on this plan to ambush the army.

Zhang Jujing shook a shot, left behind the rear army, and turned to the south. After walking a short distance, I saw a piece of wood, another cannon sounded, and four or five thousand ambush soldiers turned out, and the first person was Tong Shengyang.

Zhang Jujing's wings were scattered, the forward was broken, he led the Chinese army to kill a bloody road, escaped several miles away, heard the fight behind him, he turned to the left and right, brought more than 30,000 men and horses, only a few hundred. He shouted, turned his horse, and hurriedly grabbed from side to side. Zhang Jujing struggled to break away, and he shouted: "Xingzhou and Daning are all wiped out here, what face do I have to go to see the elders of Liaoxi." ”

Suddenly, another cannon rang out.

One or two thousand volts of soldiers suddenly rose, and the first general was Lu Qianwu. Zhang Jujing stumbled and fell off the horse, fell to the ground, and watched him raise the pole and fire, striking flints and burning the medium, and the gunpowder and iron pills came out. Thousands of firebolts were fired together, thousands of iron pills were overwhelming, and Zhang Jujing's last sentence: "Heaven is absolutely me." ”

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1. The eternals are in the front, and the eternals are in the back. What is there in the midst of me?

From the Southern Song Dynasty Fang Yue's "The Great Drunken Star Nephew Under the Moon Makes Moso's Book Xun's Pen Titled Drunken Xing".